Quotes About Conceit

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Small things make base men proud.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say "I".